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Amechanon, Vol. I / 2016-2018, ISSN: 2459-2846

«Artistic & Philosophical Practices to Change School?

(PHILARPE)»

Ι. The Artistic Residency and the «Phantom- vessel»

October 17 – November 6, 2016

Presentation

As part of the research project «Artistic & Philosophical Practices to Change School?
(PHILARPE)», with scientifically and organizationally responsible the Laboratory

«Education, Cultures, Politics» (ECP, University of Lumière Lyon2) & the «Laboratory of

Research on Practical Philosophy» (L.R.P.Ph.) / University of the Aegean & collaborating
partner the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts artistic residency was planned, in
collaboration with the Directorate of Secondary Education of Dodecanesos and the

Municipality of Leros (see http://practphilab.aegean.gr/φιλοσοφικές-διεπιστημονικές-

πρακτικ/).

The objects and the practices that PHILARPE expects to disclose and to analyze, are
placed at the crossroads of art, philosophy and education, as well as those of art and

philosophy within education (and vice versa). PHILARPE proposes to correlate artistic
and philosophical practices in light of the question about their common stakes, their

formative influence on the educational environment and their ability to educate
differently, notably to «change school». This perspective is systematically supported by

art education - the intervening artist constitutes here a central figure. The same analysis
can be made with regard to the development of philosophical practice as a generalized

educational practice, even though the figure of the «intervening philosopher» remains
rarer and tradition tends to connect philosophy to the development of cognitive and

ethical-political skills and to the shaping of an active citizen. Placed at the intersection

of these two areas considered as levers of educational change, PHILARPE is enrolled in
a european and international trend and perspective.

More specifically, it is about the installation of an original mechanism of artistic and

philosophical intervention on the islands of Dodocanese, as part of the research carried
out by the two cooperating laboratories, starting from Leros. The animators invite the

participants to think and give shape together in one of the most widespread myths that
fuel the island imaginary: the phantom- ship myth.

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